This week’s episode is much longer than usual–about 40 minutes–because our discussion with bookstore manager Frank Cole was just too darn interesting to trim down. Frank gives a lot of great advice to authors about how they should develop their relationship with bookstores, what they should and shouldn’t do at signings, and what will make a bookstore eager to have you back (or eager to have you leave).

Next we talk about how to write humor. How and why should humor be used in your writing? How is it different if you’re writing a humor for humor’s sake (like Frank and Marion’s MG novels) or including humor in a different genre (like Sarah’s romances).

Finally, we play a rousing game of Bad Romance–including a brand new theme song!–and Frank creates a really strange booby trap.

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Raquel doesn’t know who the father of her baby is. But she has her suspicions. Lucio, the son of Cuban mob boss Don Carlos, is a regular customer, cunning and twisted, obsessed with the ancient magic of the demon underworld. She prays it is not him.
Anyone but him.
Raquel remembers the high stakes poker game where she served drinks and other refreshment to a table of the most powerful men in Cuba. She remembers when it all went wrong, and two undercover American government agents were killed in a gruesome blood bath. She had loved one of them.
Wishing the child were his would not make it possible.
The nuns who have taken her in say nothing, even when she wakes nightly, screaming and drenched in sweat.
Lucio was coming to take his child.
And if her dreams were a warning, the depths of his insanity knew no bounds.
Waking up to a hand pressed over her mouth, Raquel’s screams go unheard. But when the lamp is lit, she finds herself staring at a stranger.
Agent Joe Jameson has been assigned to find the missing federal agents, and all sources have led him to the prostitute Raquel Abril. He can protect her in many ways, but how can he protect her from the night terrors threatening to drive her insane? When chilling, unexplainable events push him and Raquel further from safety, the madman, Lucio Gutierrez, makes his intentions for power beyond this world known.
When help comes from a surprising source, Don Carlos, it is up to J.J. to discern who is trustworthy, and who is the devil.

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